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3 Indian American Scientists Honoured with U.S. Presidential Award
Pawan Sinha
Pawan Sinha is an associate professor of computational and visual neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
He conducted research on vision impaired people and children with autism and also did experimental work on a specific category of children who got back their eye sight after going through stages of congenital blindness.
Based on this study, Sinha came up with a humanitarian and scientific programme, named "Project Prakash", aimed at the betterment of blind children.
Prof. Sinha is also the recipient of James McDonnell Scholar Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience, the John Merck Scholars Award for research on developmental disorders, the Jeptha and Emily Wade Award for creative research, and the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
Sinha completed his degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and did his Master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of Computer Science at MIT.
Parag A Pathak
Pathak is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he also directs working group on Market design at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Pathak received his Ph.D. in Business Economics, a Master's and Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
